Paint, PA
Paint wildfire risk explained
Paint sits at the 47th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 443 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Paint at the 48th percentile, close to its 47th-percentile risk score.
Paint's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Paint (86% of 443 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 14% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Paint ranks
Compare Paint's two percentiles: 75th within Pennsylvania, only 47th nationally — a gap of 29 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Paint ranks 16,777 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,406 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 490 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Paint and the insurance market
Paint's elevated rating (47th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Paint
Because 86% of Paint's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Paint's figures come from
Paint's 47th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Paint's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.